Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Lautner

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

Chet Baker

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Lee Grant

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Andrew Bird

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Gabrielle Aplin

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Tobias Levkovich

To a degree, the Japanese market has been marching to its own drummer for a number of years due to its economic difficulties.

Jack Hall

T.K. is ready to get back out and play, but his drums are pretty much a mess, so we have to get him some new ones.

Brian Eno

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

Brian Eno

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

Dave Edmunds

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Dave Barry

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Carlos Santana

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Carlos Santana

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

James Young

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Thomas Mallon

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Sharon Stone

I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.

Kathryn Harrison

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Kristin Armstrong

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

George Weah

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

Todd Berry

I want to see points. We're going to have the pedal down.

Zach Johnson

You've got to pretty much put the pedal to the medal.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Gary Barnett

But we've sputtered at times on offense, especially in the red zone. But at the end of the half, we picked up things there.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Bill Plympton

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

Shane Doan

Tonight I think we picked up our desperation and urgency. We need to do that, or else we were going to be in trouble.

Andrew Levin

We picked up everything we were supposed to.

Gene Dales

We picked up a lot yards but had no points to show for it.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Noam Chomsky

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

G-Eazy

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Publilius Syrus

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

Tobias Smollett

False as the fowler's artful snare.

Charles M. Schwab

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

Elinor Wylie

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Annika Sorenstam

so I can feel the steel and be more in touch with the workout.

A. E. Housman

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

Herb Kelleher

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Geraldine Chaplin

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Simon Hughes

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Bill Laswell

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Joan Didion

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Willem de Kooning

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Clint Dempsey

You have to set the tone early. We're just going to play hard.